On 18 Feb, 16:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Paul Boddie wrote: > > Here's one page which probably tells you stuff you already know: > > >http://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide/Download > > Thank you! It says I need Python (which I've got) and the Python-devel > package, which sounds like it might include Tkinter and IDLE. Now if > only I knew where to get the Python-devel package ...
It would probably be the python-dev package if Linspire really is based on Debian. However, that only gives you the Python headers, as far as I remember. You would also need to get the packages for Tcl/Tk including those providing the headers. And IDLE and Tkinter are separate packages, too. But generally, just asking for the idle or idle-python2.5 packages will give you the stack of packages you need without any further thought required. That said, if the problem is that Linspire doesn't provide Python 2.5 as a package, then you're back to installing the Tcl/Tk packages and then building from source, configuring, building and installing Python as mentioned earlier. You could instead attempt to port the generic Debian package to Linspire, but this isn't for the timid. ;-) If finding Tcl/Tk packages is also a problem, you could build Tcl/Tk from scratch, too - something I've had to do in the distant past on operating systems like Solaris. Then, it's a matter of telling Python's configure program where you installed the Tcl/Tk headers and libraries. Paul P.S. I'm not sure if I can advise you on the specifics around Linspire. Ubuntu and Debian are quite transparent, and you can quite easily find packages for them on packages.ubuntu.com and packages.debian.org respectively. The whole CNR stuff and the proprietary software slant of Linspire obscures the solution, in my opinion. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list